Show Business: We, the Jury

Combining Greek tragedy and judicial farce, a federal court jury last
week re-enacted for a Baltimore television audience just how it had
decided to convict a man of murder and kidnaping.

"An unprecedented public revelation of jury room activity,"
crowed a handout by WBAL-TV, an NBC affiliate owned by the Hearst Corp.
Raptured the Hearst-owned Baltimore News-Post: "A reportorial
breakthrough of the traditional silence of the jury room." It sure
was.

The nine men, including the foreman who later asserted that they had
received assurances that their appearance had been okayed by federal...